Which NFL teams will spend in free agency? We rank them 1-32USA TodayWhich teams are likely to be most active in free agency? We rank them 1-32 based on their needs, historical behavior and resources (each club's available cap space as of Friday)

"Tonight the "legal tampering" period precursor to Free Agency begins. This is when teams and agents can start to negotiate contracts, 3 days ahead of Free Agency. Every single NFL team used to break the tampering rules each year, so the league just went ahead and changed the rules, making it legal to "tamper" in this period. Here is the gist of it..."

Oakland Raiders: Free agent waters can be tested Friday nightJerry McDonald, BayAreaNewsGroupSeventeen Raiders players scheduled for unrestricted free agency will begin to get an idea of their worth on the open market beginning Friday night.

In advance of start of the new NFL year Tuesday, agents can begin contract talks with prospective teams starting at 9 p.m. Friday on the West Coast.

I always get confused about how the salary cap works, so I did a search for answers. This article is one of the easier to understand. It has an example of a player with a 5-year contract having various bonuses in different years, and explains exactly how much cap hit that player would generate in each year of his contract. It explains the "signing bonus", the "option bonus", the "roster bonus", guaranteed money, pro-rating a bonus, renegotiating a contract, and more.

Kind of stoked about this pick up. He sounds like another Jon Richie, a Raiders kind of player. Some Eagles fans seem to miss him already.

Nike pick-up. Reece hasn't signed yet so perhaps it will put the pressure on. Reece is a must-sign though. I LOVE a bruiser like Schmitt though. All heart and can knock the crap outta people. Jon Richie, anyone?

(Sorry about the image with the blow-out loss to the G-men on the bottom...I still hear about that one)

From what I've read, Reece doesn't have much leverage in the whole ordeal. So, unless he doesn't wish to play this season, he'll have to sign one way or another.

Kind of stoked about this pick up. He sounds like another Jon Richie, a Raiders kind of player. Some Eagles fans seem to miss him already.

Nike pick-up. Reece hasn't signed yet so perhaps it will put the pressure on. Reece is a must-sign though. I LOVE a bruiser like Schmitt though. All heart and can knock the crap outta people. Jon Richie, anyone?

(Sorry about the image with the blow-out loss to the G-men on the bottom...I still hear about that one)

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